How do I create a subdomain?

[torqhost]

How do I create a subdomain? I am guessing it's the co domain feature, but where do I put the files, that correspond to the subdomain? I don't want to do redirection to folders, I just need it to display a subdomain properly.

Thanks

[till]

Just create a new website. If your subdomain is sub.domain.com, then create a website with:

hostname: sub
domain: domain.com

Every client van have more then one website.

[torqhost]

But how can a client create a subdomain? I think only administrator or reseller can create new sites, but I think resellers will not want to create evey subdomain for customers manually.

[till]

Create a reseller account for your client, if you want that the client is able to create new websites.

Co-domains are subdomains and they can be created by the client himself. But if you want a own webspace for a subdomain, it is a website and not a co-domain and websites can only be created by resellers and the admin.

[torqhost]

Ok, I understand what you mean. But I don't need a subdomain to be a separate website, the settings / limits should be as for the parent website, I just need it to point it to a directory inside the website directory, so if I say, for example wiki.somedomain, I would like wiki to point to wiki directory inside the directory for somedomain. Co-domain however can only forward the url from wiki.somedomain to somedomain/wiki. So there is no way to just make it point to a directory and keeping parent settings, but a website needs to be created.
An I correct in my understanding now?

Thanks for your help.

[till]

You can do this with custom rewrite rules.

http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12783

[ataman79]

Originally Posted by till

Just create a new website. If your subdomain is sub.domain.com, then create a website with:

hostname: sub
domain: domain.com

Every client van have more then one website.

Ok I create a new website just like you said. My domain is www.domain.com and i deicide to create subdomain test.domain.com, but now when I type the command : ping test.domain.com - it tells me that could not find host test.libra-ag.com

Where is the problem ?

[falko]

Please check if the DNS record for test.domain.com is correct. You can check that like this:

dig test.domain.com